Blake
@bixu.bsky.social
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This Week in Politics | Explainer
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December 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Does Elon Musk believe in your autonomy?
A. Yes, Musk is a proponent of self-driving technology.
B. No, Musk doesn’t think I’m capable of independent thought due to having “low T.”
A. Yes, Musk is a proponent of self-driving technology.
B. No, Musk doesn’t think I’m capable of independent thought due to having “low T.”
Are You a Waymo or a Woman?
Do people doubt your driving abilities? A. Yes, I’m still earning trust as a new mode of transportation. B. Yes, I’m still up against long-held ...
buff.ly
January 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Does Elon Musk believe in your autonomy?
A. Yes, Musk is a proponent of self-driving technology.
B. No, Musk doesn’t think I’m capable of independent thought due to having “low T.”
A. Yes, Musk is a proponent of self-driving technology.
B. No, Musk doesn’t think I’m capable of independent thought due to having “low T.”
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"...whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world."
— The Princess of Pure Reason, from The Phantom Tollbooth
— The Princess of Pure Reason, from The Phantom Tollbooth
November 13, 2024 at 6:57 AM
"...whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world."
— The Princess of Pure Reason, from The Phantom Tollbooth
— The Princess of Pure Reason, from The Phantom Tollbooth
Congrats to @adamhjk.me, @fnichol.bsky.social and the rest of the SI team. This thing looks great for so many reasons. Not the least of which is a fast validation loop 🔁
System Inititave is the future of DevOps Automation, and it’s ready to replace Infrastructure as Code today. Sign up at systeminit.com, and read more about why it’s the future: systeminit.com/blog-system-...
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systeminit.com
September 26, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Congrats to @adamhjk.me, @fnichol.bsky.social and the rest of the SI team. This thing looks great for so many reasons. Not the least of which is a fast validation loop 🔁
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #35,207!
September 26, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #35,207!
What the eft is going on, Pennsylvania?
July 1, 2024 at 2:33 AM
What the eft is going on, Pennsylvania?
Street shoes inside seems to be dying out, even in the US. My experience, anyway.
hey, let’s check in on white people and see what they’re up to!
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June 24, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Street shoes inside seems to be dying out, even in the US. My experience, anyway.
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Things are very dire here financially, so my wife and I are making a big push to get some money via this pet commission offer through our joint venture, NikkiMaki.
I could really really use your help spreading the word here and on other networks. Thank you!
nicolablack.com/nikkimaki/
I could really really use your help spreading the word here and on other networks. Thank you!
nicolablack.com/nikkimaki/
June 6, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Things are very dire here financially, so my wife and I are making a big push to get some money via this pet commission offer through our joint venture, NikkiMaki.
I could really really use your help spreading the word here and on other networks. Thank you!
nicolablack.com/nikkimaki/
I could really really use your help spreading the word here and on other networks. Thank you!
nicolablack.com/nikkimaki/
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Hot take maybe, but you’re not an”animal person” if you only like mammals.
June 5, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Hot take maybe, but you’re not an”animal person” if you only like mammals.
I dare you to look a pair of damselflies directly in the face. I dare you.
June 1, 2024 at 7:05 PM
I dare you to look a pair of damselflies directly in the face. I dare you.
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Something I always think about when we get these wonderful Aurora events….
We live on a precious and unique spaceship, the only of its kind, that looks after us.
Aurora is the output of the Earth’s magnetic field protecting you right now.
Remember that when they talk about “colonising Mars”.
We live on a precious and unique spaceship, the only of its kind, that looks after us.
Aurora is the output of the Earth’s magnetic field protecting you right now.
Remember that when they talk about “colonising Mars”.
May 11, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Something I always think about when we get these wonderful Aurora events….
We live on a precious and unique spaceship, the only of its kind, that looks after us.
Aurora is the output of the Earth’s magnetic field protecting you right now.
Remember that when they talk about “colonising Mars”.
We live on a precious and unique spaceship, the only of its kind, that looks after us.
Aurora is the output of the Earth’s magnetic field protecting you right now.
Remember that when they talk about “colonising Mars”.
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, familiar with qntm.org/scp ?
There Is No Antimemetics Division
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.
Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information ...
qntm.org
May 15, 2024 at 10:36 AM
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, familiar with qntm.org/scp ?
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Picard management tip: Admit ignorance and ask a question rather than blunder forward out of pride.
May 10, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Picard management tip: Admit ignorance and ask a question rather than blunder forward out of pride.
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This is a lie, and it's always been a lie. Something like ChatGPT needs a TON of text in the language you're targeting to train the model. You get it by licensing it, or you by paying people to write it for you, or by stealing it. What they're saying is it's impossible to create CHEAPLY.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 3:26 PM
This is a lie, and it's always been a lie. Something like ChatGPT needs a TON of text in the language you're targeting to train the model. You get it by licensing it, or you by paying people to write it for you, or by stealing it. What they're saying is it's impossible to create CHEAPLY.
April 11, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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in reality, most of current AI is a bunch of underpaid data workers in a trench coat
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
April 3, 2024 at 8:28 AM
in reality, most of current AI is a bunch of underpaid data workers in a trench coat
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
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In Medellín, a city of 2.5 million people in Colombia, the Green Corridors urban restoration project has planted 880,000 trees and 2.5 million plants, reducing pollution and bringing temperatures down by 2 degrees C. #ShareGoodNewsToo reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corrid...
How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years
With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures -- and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.
reasonstobecheerful.world
March 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
In Medellín, a city of 2.5 million people in Colombia, the Green Corridors urban restoration project has planted 880,000 trees and 2.5 million plants, reducing pollution and bringing temperatures down by 2 degrees C. #ShareGoodNewsToo reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corrid...
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I just received the creepiest error message I've ever seen:
"TypeError: The body has already been consumed."
"TypeError: The body has already been consumed."
February 23, 2024 at 4:04 AM
I just received the creepiest error message I've ever seen:
"TypeError: The body has already been consumed."
"TypeError: The body has already been consumed."
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The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope
March 22, 2024 at 1:16 PM
The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope
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I'll keep advocating for native OTel support from all AWS services, including Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions and API Gateway.
This would allow us to monitor our services in a proper observability backend like Honeycomb.io or Baselime.
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This would allow us to monitor our services in a proper observability backend like Honeycomb.io or Baselime.
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October 30, 2023 at 9:42 PM
I'll keep advocating for native OTel support from all AWS services, including Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions and API Gateway.
This would allow us to monitor our services in a proper observability backend like Honeycomb.io or Baselime.
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This would allow us to monitor our services in a proper observability backend like Honeycomb.io or Baselime.
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